Improvement in sole-edge-trimming tools



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

icHABon R. ROGERS, oE LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 'ro HIMSELE,

JOHN WOOLDREDGE, AND GEORGE E. BARTLETT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOLE-EDGE-TRIMMING TOOLS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,096. dated February18, 1873.

To yall whom it mag/concern:

`Be it known thatV I, IcHAEoD R. ROGERS, of Lynn, in the county ofEssex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an ImprovedSole-Edge-Triinming Tool; and I do hereby declare that the following,taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part ofthis specication, is a description of my invention suicient to enablethose skilled in the art to practice it.

The invention relatesto the construction of a hand-tool for cutting fromthe edge of a shoesole a strip, preferably square or rectangular insection, to impart a iinish to the sole-edge, and to leave the bottomofthe sole projecting down beyond the surface at and near the edge, thenished edge thus lessened in thickness Wearing longer in a finishedcondition or without being subject to the abrasive wear which thetread-surface undergoes.

In my invention I use a handle or stock having extending from one end agage-piece that, in connection with the cutter, shalldeterniine thewidth of cut, and having also at such end a gage piece or surface that,in connection with the cutter, determines the depth of cut; these twogages being xed, and the cutter formed with one edge extending to thefirst gage, and the second edge (angular thereto) extending to thesecond gage, the two gagesurfaces preferably forming two sides 'of thequadrangular figure, and the cutting-edges the other two sides thereof.It is in this construction of a tool that my invention consists.

The drawing represents a tool embodying my construction.

ing toward the edge of the cutter. an end view.

c denotes the stock or handle. Fixed to the stock and projecting fromits end is seen the gage-plate b.` This plate is about half thethickness of the stock, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, and forms a lip orprojection, the inner face.

through the stock, and having a nut, g, on its screw-threaded end. Thecutter has two cutting-edges-one, h, being in the line of the shank, andthe other, t', extending therefrom Ato the gage b. 'Ihe end of thecutting-edge t' extends into th'e gage, and the edge h extends towardand by the bottom of a gage, 7c, and the width of cut is determined bythe length of cutting-edgefi between the face ofthe gageplate b and theangle of the knife, while the depth of cut is determined by the lengthof cutting-edge h between the bottom of the gage 7c and the angle of thecutter.

In use the gage k is held against the bottoni of the sole and the gage bagainst the edge of the sole; and by arranging the cutter and gage-facesas shown I am not only enabled to cutout the strip to shape the edge ofthe sole as desired, but I secure a firm support for the cutting-edges.

The sole-edge-trimmin g tool, having the cutter and its cutting-edgesarranged with respect to the gage-faces substantial] y as shown anddescribed.

Executed this 31st day of December, A. I).

. IGHABOD It. ROGERS. Witnesses:

ATHERTON M. WooLDREEeE, ARTHUR H. PARROTT.

